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From: Michael Maar
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 2:15 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: more teeth

Dear Philip and list,
 
 
the English title of Mann's "Der Erwählte" actually was "The holy sinner" (whose recommandation I share). In "Doctor Faustus", rotten teeth and dentristry also play an important role as leitmotifs. The hidden and hostile hints to Thomas Mann in Nabokov's works remain an interesting field of research.
 
Michael Maar
 
 
 
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Von: D. Barton Johnson
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Betreff: Fw: more teeth

 
----- Original Message -----
From: Philip Maschke
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
Sent: Sunday, December 31, 1995 5:31 PM
Subject: more teeth

Dear Don and list,

One of the probably most prominent examples of teeth in literature is Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks. Teeth play a central role and are one of the leitmotifs in the novel. There are other examples in the works of Mann
(I know that VN had a strong opinion on Mann and many Nabokovians therefor don't like him. But if you' d like to read something differnt from Mann (except for Buddenbrooks, Der Tod in Venedig, Der Zauberberg) maybe you should try Der Erwählte ( The Chosen One ?). Ada Enthusiasts should find here once again the topic of incest in German literature.)

Another text that comes to mind speaking of teeth is Flann O'Brien The third policeman, which has a nice strange discussion about teeth and health (probably a commonplace topic at that time).

philip

"D. Barton Johnson" schrieb:

EDNOTE. Prof. Goldschweer has put me to shame. My claim to be the progenitor of a new critical genre was mistaken--as documented below. Worse yet, Ziolkowski's volume with  its seminal essay "The Telltale Teeth: Psychodontia to Sociodontia" is on my shelf and I must have read it. He adds many names to the (transcen-)dental canon. Among them a couple of novels I have recently read---but obviously with insufficient attention to  the dental theme: Frank Norris's 1899 _McTeague_ and  Georges Bernanos' _Diairy of  Country Priest -(circa 1930?). Alert reader  Basil Lawrence calls attention William Goldman's _Marathon Man_.

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From: Ulrike.Goldschweer@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
  <?color><?param 0100,0100,0100>Dear List,
There is an article on that subject in <?/color>Theodore <?color><?param 0100,0100,0100>Ziolkowski's Varieties of Literary Thematics (Princeton 1983), including Guenther Grass (I think), but not Nabokov (if my memory doesn't deceive me).
Kind regards

Ulrike Goldschweer, Bochum (Germany)